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To the editor of the Sudbury Star,
(Published April 15, 2008)
George Smitherman says hospitals facing cash shortfalls shouldn't expect more from the province, even if it means laying off nurses and closing beds. Otherwise, he said, there would be a "free-for-all where hospitals spend whatever they want and send in the bill at the end of the year, and that the people's heath-care system can't be sustained on that basis".
In my vision of "the people's health-care system", the hospitals would spend whatever was required to meet the health care demands of their community and send in the bills as the year went along. I understand the need to be vigilant about frivolous spending and poor hospital management, but to fund these institutions without any consideration of the of level of legitimate services required is surreal.
Smitherman's strategy of closing beds and reducing service levels to forestall deficits doesn't punish the hospital management. It punishes the taxpayers of this province, ordinary citizens who need the care that the provincial government, in the person of George Smitherman, would so glibly deny them.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Re: Council can't agree on new policy - April 3, 2008
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To the editor of the Sudbury Star,
(Published April 7, 2008)
I was appalled at some of Council's comments in this article. Councillor Dupuis asks the question, "The only thing they could hang us for was freaking tickets? " No sir. Personally, I think you could be hung for Council's lack of effecting an improvement in road conditions, among other things. (The editor altered this sentence thusly: "No sir. I think you (have responsibility for) the lack of improvement in road conditions, among other things." I guess they thought hanging seemed a tad harsh, even though Councillor Dupuis brought it up first.) The ticket affair merely shows this council's disdain for the taxpayers who elected them and a misguided sense of their place in the political sphere of things.
Thanks to the Sudbury Star and the whistle blower for shining a light into places our elected officials would rather leave dark. I had hoped the new auditor would improve transparency at City Hall, but having them report to this Council will be like having the fox in charge of the hen house.
Councillor Dupuis, I read the Sudbury Star and I vote. Every time.
To the editor of the Sudbury Star,
(Published April 7, 2008)
I was appalled at some of Council's comments in this article. Councillor Dupuis asks the question, "The only thing they could hang us for was freaking tickets? " No sir. Personally, I think you could be hung for Council's lack of effecting an improvement in road conditions, among other things. (The editor altered this sentence thusly: "No sir. I think you (have responsibility for) the lack of improvement in road conditions, among other things." I guess they thought hanging seemed a tad harsh, even though Councillor Dupuis brought it up first.) The ticket affair merely shows this council's disdain for the taxpayers who elected them and a misguided sense of their place in the political sphere of things.
Thanks to the Sudbury Star and the whistle blower for shining a light into places our elected officials would rather leave dark. I had hoped the new auditor would improve transparency at City Hall, but having them report to this Council will be like having the fox in charge of the hen house.
Councillor Dupuis, I read the Sudbury Star and I vote. Every time.
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